2022
To Stand Here
An exhibition featuring Laurén Gerig & Rebecca Casement
To Stand Here is contemplation, strength in quiet, vulnerability, and observation. It is an exposing of process, of things not fully said, and a focus on what is seen and felt.
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The ritual of noticing and acknowledging:
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Slow and quiet changes
as seasons shift,
first crimson leaves on a sumac tree,
a zinnia's slow sigh towards the ground after a frost,
the emergence of first greens in the Spring.
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Standing here
in conversation,
listening to stories of strangers.
Standing at the graveside of a loved one,
feeling the humid air on one's face.
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In this work, materials are layered, deconstructed, and built up again. The paintings on paper and broken sphere sculptures were created with the sense of immediacy and poignance of diary-like entries. Paint is scraped, carved into, layered onto the surface. Clay is molded leaving inedible marks suggesting the history of the object and the time it was made.
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To Stand Here is a tangible collection of moments of stillness among movement and change.